Color

#aa8941

#aa8941
hex#aa8941
rgbrgb(170, 137, 65)
hslhsl(41, 45%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.099 84.7)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2682

Colors that go with #aa8941

Blush Pink, Cadet Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #aa8941

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4162aa

#aa5441 · #97aa41

#41aa89 · #8941aa

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#4197aa · #5441aa

#41aa54 · #4162aa · #aa4197

Contrast

#aa8941 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7135 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5629 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59245 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8941 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#aa8941 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8941
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #aa8941 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8941-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md